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LiveFounder and operator credibility — the entry wedge.
For Investors
Human credibility is now infrastructure.
We built the platform that measures it.
AI decides who gets surfaced, cited, and recommended based on psychological trust signals most operators can't see. YOUmanize is the credibility intelligence layer underneath every relationship in modern business — starting with founders, extending to HR, sales, and the organizations behind them.
The thesis
Visibility is dead. Credibility is the new distribution.
The discovery layer moved. Sixty-five percent of Google searches end without a click. More than half of B2B software buyers start research with an AI chatbot. LLMs don't rank visibility — they rank credibility, through psychological trust signals across the open web.
This is the largest distribution shift since the search engine. And nobody is measuring the actual credibility signals AI is reading.
YOUmanize is. Across seven weighted psychological signals. Across founders, executives, employees, advisors, and the organizations they represent. Same underlying trust data. Different activities on top.
65%
>50%
$100B+
The platform thesis
From the founder's authority to the organization's credibility.
YOUmanize is not a single product. It is a credibility infrastructure layer with multiple vertical applications. Founder authority is the entry wedge — measurable, urgent, monetizable today. The data and models that power it extend horizontally across every domain where human trust is the buying signal.
HR
Extends toRecruiting, employee trust, leadership credibility — example of where the infrastructure extends.
Sales
Extends toRelationship-driven scaling, trust scoring across customer-facing roles — example application.
Nonprofit
Extends toDonor trust, mission credibility, organizational transparency — example application.
Same trust infrastructure underneath. Different activities on top. Every layer strengthens the underlying model.
The product
Live in market. Generating real credibility data.
The YOUmanize Score is calculated across seven psychological trust signals, delivered with explanatory analysis from Alice (the AI Credibility Advisor), and updated continuously as the user's public presence changes.
Every user interaction strengthens the underlying credibility model — the dataset and predictions compound with usage.
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YOUmanize™ Score
Analyzed: LinkedIn · Last updated today
Recognized Credibility
+5 pts since last analysis
Trust Signal Breakdown
Authenticity 70 · Medium
Consistency 85 · High
Reciprocity 40 · Low
Relevance 55 · Low
Social Proof 40 · Low
Transparency 70 · Medium
Emotional Resonance 70 · Medium
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Alice · Credibility Advisor
Your strongest signal is Consistency. Focus next on Social Proof — it's the highest-leverage move from here.
Seven trust signals
The signals AI is already reading. We made them measurable.
Authenticity. Consistency. Reciprocity. Relevance. Social Proof. Transparency. Emotional Resonance. Seven dimensions of professional credibility, weighted by their measured impact on AI surfacing decisions, scored across observable public-presence patterns. The pattern matters more than any single signal — and the specific weights are deliberately not published so operators build real credibility instead of gaming the formula.
The system
A six-step continuous credibility loop.
Establish a baseline. Capture authority targets. Generate a strategy playbook. Predict content performance with agent swarm simulation before publishing. Measure actual outcomes. Refine. Every cycle tightens the prediction model and deepens the data moat.
The system gets smarter with every user, every cycle, every signal.
The market
A $100B+ market, entered through a sharp wedge.
Initial wedge: founder-led and service-based B2B businesses in the US whose growth depends on individual human credibility.
Expansion: B2B organization-wide deployment across millions of professionals and 100K+ companies globally as the platform extends into HR, sales, and other credibility-dependent functions.
Initial penetration target: 1–2% of the high-intent segment.
Revenue model
Four streams. Each one strengthens the dataset.
Every revenue stream feeds the underlying credibility model with new signal data, increasing accuracy and long-term defensibility.
Subscriptions
Founders, service-led SMBs, consultants
The wedge revenue line. Founder-led and service-based B2B operators paying for the Score, Alice, and predictive modeling. Self-serve.
Mid-Market & Enterprise
Customized credibility coherence across teams
Larger orgs deploying YOUmanize across customer-facing roles, executive teams, and internal authority development. Higher ACV. Land-and-expand.
API & Licensing
Integrations with CRMs, sales tools, networks, agencies
The infrastructure layer. Other platforms embedding YOUmanize credibility scoring into their workflows. Defensible data moat.
Certification & Ambassadors
Movement-maker network
Practitioners who deliver YOUmanize-informed work to their own clients. Ecosystem growth. Reinforces the methodology as the standard.
The founders
Two operators with the receipts to build this.
Rachel B. Lee
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Owner & CMO, StandOut Authority
- • LinkedIn Top Voice
- • Former brand strategy leader, Microsoft & Gartner
- • Led Microsoft Inspire social strategy: 1B+ impressions
- • Managed $50M+ business at Gartner
- • Featured in The Washington Post
- • Guest lecturer at UT Austin McCombs
Joshua B. Lee
Co-Founder & CVO
Founder & CEO, StandOut Authority
- • 25+ years building trust-driven businesses
- • 17 companies founded
- • Managed nearly $1B in digital ad spend
- • Veteran of Yahoo and MySpace
- • Author of Balance is Bullsh*t
- • Creator of the Authority Architecture framework
StandOut Authority revealed the problem. Every signal, pattern, and credibility tier inside YOUmanize was built directly from StandOut Authority client engagements over 15+ years — with leaders including Tony Robbins, John Maxwell, Peter Diamandis, Joe Polish, Jay Abraham, Sally Hogshead, Jeff Walker, Dan Sullivan, and teams from Microsoft, Oracle, AWS, Gartner, ADT, and the University of Texas. YOUmanize is the system the founders built to productize that methodology at scale.
Roadmap
Two new capabilities already in active development.
The Bisection Layer
Pre-publish prediction. Brain heatmap, 20-persona audience swarm, voice match dial — in roughly three seconds. Then a Reality Score on a 4-quadrant matrix after the post lands. The gap between predicted and actual, finally measurable.
Alice 2.0
A real coach, not a chatbot. Four-layer architecture: defined identity, retrieved methodology knowledge, full personalization, structured coaching outputs. References specific moments in your work — not generic advice.
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